"A singular fact about modern war is that……" — Bruce Catton
"A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished."
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21 Quotes by Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton has 21 quotes on this site.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be…
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines,…
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the…
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A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town…
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip…
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Early youth is a baffling time
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the…
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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was…
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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape…
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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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